MAMAKATING – In a tactical switch, the Basha Kill Area Association (BKAA) has decided to drop its lawsuit against Yukiguni Maitake (YM), the international mushroom-growing company that intends to build a plant on McDonald Road in Mamakating. While critics of the BKAA will point to this decision as yet another defeat for the organization, the reason for the withdrawal is really in anticipation of what was likely to be a dismissal of the case on technical grounds, according to Alex Smith, attorney for the BKAA.

"It was obviously going to be a procedural fight," Smith said in regard to the suit.  > MORE

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